Weekends are such fun times around here. Productive ones, too, with a Bible study, kids club, soccer league, youth group meeting and Sunday church service happening. This weekend, Canadian friend Shelli Nuefeld gave a 5-hour conference on kids ministry at the Jesus Maria church also, with people from four different churches attending. Here are some …
After a wonderful time in PA (coming…a post on pig stomach), we returned to Mexico in time to receive Mike Conteras and Joseph Keith from Youth Missions International. I could have taken several picks of us eating tacos together! This past weekend, good friend Gaspar Chable visited us for a couple of days. Always great …
This past week has been full of year-end activities. Some of the highlights…a Christmas youth group get-together complete with a gift game, a devo and of course some food! It was great to have Matheus and Karen with us…which we didn’t expect. Matheus flew to Brazil to be with his family after youth group, and …
Rod’s cousin Marla and her son Kyle came for a visit this past week, and we really didn’t change our schedule a whole lot, although we did visit some pretty parts of Mexico for two days. More on that in the next post. Marla and Kyle brought down 8 simple hearing amplification devices, and so …
Thanks to so many of you who have been praying for the new church plant in another of the neighborhoods here in Ixtapaluca, an area called “Palmas 1.” We were back in our rented building yesterday, after having to find a different place to meet on our second Sunday due to a previous commitment at …
Some of you know that this past Sunday, November 6, we officially began Sunday services in Palmas 1, another neighborhood in Ixtapaluca. It was extremely encouraging to know that many people were praying for us, and neat to hear some many people afterward ask us about it. Below is a selfie that Matheus took at …
Teaching. Eating. Singing. Eating. Playing. Eating. Ministering. Do you see a pattern here? So was our second weekend with a group of students from Word of Life Bible Institute, Mexico. This weekend Karen Méndez joined us, and Lord willing she’ll be able to continue with Matheus, Cheila and Rebeca. Our very first kids club at …
Rebecca is the third member of a group of students from Word of Life Bible Institute, who will be helping us in the ministry here beginning this weekend and continuing through May, 2017. We are excited about what the Lord is going to do in and through each one of us. If you missed the …